Pieter is a male given name, the Dutch form of

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. The name has been one of the most common names in the Netherlands for centuries, but since the mid-twentieth century its popularity has dropped steadily, from almost 3000 per year in 1947 to about 100 a year in 2016.Pieter
at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands Some of the better known people with this name are below. See for a longer list. * Pieter de Coninck (?-1332), Flemish revolutionary * Pieter van der Moere (c. 1480–1572), Flemish Franciscan missionary in Mexico known as "Pedro de Gante" *

Pieter Coecke van Aelst Pieter Coecke van Aelst or Pieter Coecke van Aelst the Elder (Aalst, Belgium, Aalst, 14 August 1502Pieter Coeck ...

(1502–1550), Flemish artist, architect, and author *

Pieter Aertsen Pieter Aertsen (1508, Amsterdam – 2 June 1575, Amsterdam), called ''Lange Piet'' ("Tall Pete") because of his height, was a Dutch painter in the style of Northern Mannerism. He is credited with the invention of the monumental genre scene, whi ...

(1508–1575), Dutch Mannerist painter *

Pieter Pourbus Pieter Jansz. Pourbus (c. 1523–1584) was a Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, Flemish Renaissance painter, draftsman, engineer and cartographer who was active in Bruges during the 16th century. He is known primarily for his religious and p ...

(1523–1584), Netherlandish painter, sculptor, draftsman and cartographer *

Pieter Bruegel the Elder Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder ( , ; ; – 9 September 1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaking, printmaker, known for his landscape art, landscape ...

(c 1525–1569), Netherlandish painter *

Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (occasionally Petrus Theodorus; – 11 September 1596) was a Dutch navigator and celestial cartographer who mapped several constellations on the southern celestial hemisphere. Voyages and star observation Little is ...

(1540–1596), Dutch navigator who mapped the southern sky * Pieter Platevoet (1552–1622), Dutch-Flemish astronomer and cartographer better known as "Petrus Plancius" *

Pieter Pauw Pieter Pauw (latin: Petrus Pavius), (2 August 1564 – 1 August 1617) was a Dutch botanist and anatomist. He was a student of Hieronymus Fabricius. He was the first Anatomy Professor at University of Leiden. Biography He was the son of Piete ...

(1564–1617), Dutch botanist *

Pieter Brueghel the Younger Pieter Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Younger ( , ; ; between 23 May and 10 October 1564 – between March and May 1638) was a Flemish painting, Flemish painter known for numerous copies after his father Pieter Bruegel the Elder's ...

(1564–1633), Netherlandish painter *

Pieter Both Pieter Both (1568 – 6 March 1615) was the first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. Not much is known of his early years. In 1599, Both was already an admiral in the New, or Brabant Company. In that year, he traveled to the East Indie ...

(1568–1615), first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies *

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (; 16 March 158121 May 1647) - Knight in the Order of Saint Michael - was a Dutch historian, poet and playwright who lived during the Dutch Golden Age in literature. Life Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, often abbreviated ...

(1581–1647), Dutch historian, poet and playwright *

Pieter Lastman Pieter Lastman (1583–1633) was a Dutch painter. Lastman is considered important because of his work as a painter of history pieces and because his pupils included Rembrandt and Jan Lievens. In his paintings Lastman paid careful attention to ...

(1583–1633), Dutch painter of historical and biblical scenes *

Pieter de Carpentier Pieter de Carpentier (19 February 1586 – 5 September 1659) was a Dutch administrator of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) who served as Governor-General there from 1623 to 1627. The Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia is named after him. ...

(1586–1659), Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1623–27 *

Pieter Nuyts Pieter Nuyts or Nuijts (159811 December 1655) was a Dutch Exploration, explorer, diplomat and politician. He was part of a landmark expedition of the Dutch East India Company in 1626–1627 which mapped the southern coast of Australia. He bec ...

(1598–1655), Dutch explorer, diplomat, and politician *

Pieter Claesz Pieter Claesz (c. 1597 – 1 January 1660) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes. Biography He was born in Berchem, Belgium, near Antwerp, where he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1620. He moved to Haarlem in 1620, where hi ...

(1597–1660), Dutch still life painter *

Pieter Jansz Saenredam Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (9 June 1597 – buried 31 May 1665) was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age, known for his distinctive paintings of whitewashed church interiors such as '' Interior of St Bavo's Church in Haarlem'' (1636) and '' Interior ...

(1597–1665), Dutch painter of interiors *

Pieter van Laer Pieter Bodding van Laer (christened 14 December 1599, in Haarlem – 1641 or later) was a Dutch Painting, painter and Printmaking, printmaker. He was active in Rome for over a decade and was known for Genre works, genre scenes, animal paintings a ...

(1599–1642), Dutch painter and printmaker * Pieter de Grebber (c.1600–1653), Dutch Golden Age painter *

Pieter Post Pieter Post in 1651. Portrait by Pieter Nolpe, detail of a larger work Pieter Jansz Post (1 May 1608 – buried 8 May 1669) was a Dutch Golden Age architect, painter and printmaker. Biography Post was baptised in Haarlem, the son of a s ...

(1608–1669), Dutch architect *

Pieter Stuyvesant Peter Stuyvesant ( – August 1672)Mooney, James E. "Stuyvesant, Peter" in p.1256 was a Dutch colonial administrator who served as the director-general of New Netherland from 1647 to 1664, when the colony was provisionally ceded to the King ...

(later Peter) (c.1611–1672), Dutch Director-General of New Netherland 1647–64 * Pieter van der Faes (1618–1680), Dutch portrait painter in England known as "Peter Lely" * Pieter Boel (1626–1674), Flemish still life and animal painter *

Pieter de Hooch Pieter Hendricksz. de Hooch (; also spelled ''Hoogh'' or ''Hooghe''; 20 December 1629 – after 1683), was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway. He was a contemporary, in the ...

(1629–1684), Dutch genre painter * Pieter Leermans (1635-1706), Dutch painter *

Pieter van der Aa Pieter van der Aa (Leiden, 1659 – Leiden, August 1733) was a Dutch publishing, publisher best known for preparing maps and atlases, though he also printed Copyright infringement, pirated editions of foreign bestsellers and illustrated volumes. H ...

(1659–1733), Dutch publisher of maps and atlases * Pieter Burmann the Elder (1668–1741), Dutch classical scholar * Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692–1761), Dutch scientist and inventor * Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702–1778), Dutch merchant and banker (of Teyler's Museum) * Pieter Burmann the Younger (1714–1778), Dutch philologist *

Pieter Hellendaal Pieter Hellendaal (1 April 1721 – 19 April 1799) was a Dutch composer, organist and violinist. At age 30, he migrated to England where he lived for the last 48 of his 78 years, and where he was known as Peter Hellendaal. He was one of the most ...

(1721–1799), Dutch composer, organist and violinist * Pieter van Maldere (1729–1768), South-Netherlandish violinist and composer *

Pieter Boddaert Pieter Boddaert (1730 – 6 May 1795) was a Dutch physician and naturalist. Early life, family and education Boddaert was the son of a Middelburg jurist and poet by the same name (1694–1760). The younger Pieter obtained his M.D. at the Univers ...

(1730–1795), Dutch physician and naturalist *

Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten (19 February 1755 – 22 August 1801) was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1796 until 1801. He was the last Governor-General of the Dutch East India Company, which was dissolved, bankrupt in 1799, bu ...

(1755–1801), Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies 1796–1801 * Pieter Maurits Retief (1780–1838), South African Voortrekker leader * Pieter Harting (1812–1885), Dutch biologist and naturalist * Pieter de Decker (1812–1891), Prime Minister of Belgium 1855–57 *

Pieter Bleeker Pieter Bleeker (10 July 1819 – 24 January 1878) was a Dutch medical doctor, Ichthyology, ichthyologist, and Herpetology, herpetologist. He was famous for the ''Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises'', his monumental work on ...

(1819–1878), Dutch medical doctor, ichthyologist, and herpetologist * Pieter Oyens (1842–1894), Dutch painter * Pieter Cort van der Linden (1846–1935), Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1913–18 *

Pieter Jelles Troelstra Pieter Jelles Troelstra (; 20 April 186012 May 1930) was a Dutch lawyer, journalist and politician active in the socialist workers' movement. He is most remembered for his fight for universal suffrage and his failed call for revolution at the en ...

(1860–1930), Dutch socialist politician and republican *

Pieter Zeeman Pieter Zeeman ( ; ; 25 May 1865 – 9 October 1943) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for their discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. Childhood and youth Pieter Zeeman was ...

(1865–1943), Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate *

Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian (, , ), was a Dutch Painting, painter and Theory of art, art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He w ...

(1872–1944), Dutch abstract painter * Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy (1885–1961), Prime Minister of the Netherlands in exile, 1940–45 * Pieter Geyl (1887–1966), Dutch historian *

Pieter Willem Botha Pieter Willem Botha, ( , ; 12 January 1916 – 31 October 2006) was a South African politician who served as the last Prime Minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and as the first executive State President of South Africa from 1984 until ...

(1916–2006), President of South Africa 1978–89 *

Pieter Kooijmans Pieter Hendrik "Peter" Kooijmans (; 6 July 1933 – 13 February 2013) was a Dutch politician, jurist, and diplomat. He was a member of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP), which later merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) pa ...

(1933–2013), Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs (1973–77, 1993–94) *

Pieter van Vollenhoven Pieter van Vollenhoven Jr. (born 30 April 1939) is the husband of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and a member, by marriage, of the Dutch royal house. Early life and career Van Vollenhoven was born in Schiedam, he is the second son of Pi ...

(born 1939), the husband of princess Margriet of The Netherlands *

Pieter Aspe Pieter Aspe (officially ''Pierre Aspeslag''; 3 April 1953 – 1 May 2021) was a Belgian writer of a series of detective stories starring Inspector Pieter Van In. These were adapted for the long-running TV series (2004–14) starring . He died ...

(1953–2021), Belgian crime fiction writer * Pieter Hoekstra (born 1953), Dutch-American politician and diplomat * Pieter De Crem (born 1962), Belgian Minister of Defence 2007–14 * Pieter Wispelwey (born 1962), Dutch cellist * Pieter Smit (1963–2018), Dutch politician * Pieter Timmermans, Belgian businessman * Pieter Huistra (born 1967), Dutch footballer and football coach *

Pieter van den Hoogenband Pieter Cornelis Martijn van den Hoogenband (; born 14 March 1978) is a Dutch retired swimmer. He is a triple Olympic champion and former world record holder. Early life Born in Maastricht, Limburg, he is the son of Cees-Rein van den Hoogenb ...

(born 1978), Dutch freestyle swimmer * Pieter Weening (born 1981), Dutch road bicycle racer * Pieter Timmers (born 1988), Belgian freestyle swimmer

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